Reuters names Pearson its European cyber correspondent

James Pearson

James Pearson has been named European cybersecurity correspondent for Reuters, based on London.

He previously was the Vietnam bureau chief for Reuters.

Pearson also spent four years covering North and South Korea for Reuters with a particular focus on North Korea’s ongoing marketisation, social change, embrace of the black market economy and nuclear missile program.

He holds a bachelors degree from the University of London and a master’s degree from the University of Cambridge.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.